Jazz Poetry Month at Alphabet City / City of Asylum

Mihály Borbély Quartet feat. Poet Tibor Zalán -Jazz Poetry Month - City of Asylum - ONLINE

Mihály Borbély Quartet:

Mihály Borbély - saxophones, tárogató, clarinet, bass clarinet, flutes; Áron Tálas – piano; Balázs Horváth – bass; Hunor G. Szabó – drums

Multireedist Mihály Borbély is a versatile musician working in different musical styles from folk and world music to jazz and contemporary music. Besides the saxophone and the clarinet he also plays several folk instruments including the beautiful sounding Hungarian tárogató. He has played at major folk, world music and jazz festivals all over Europe as well as in the US, Mexico and Australia.

The Mihály Borbély Quartet is a classic jazz piano quartet harkening to the peak melodic period of Coltrane. But they go one step more and combine Serbian, Slovak, Gypsy, Jewish and German folk influences with classical jazz, shot through with that thing that swings. The Quartet has twice won “Best Hungarian Jazz Album of the year,” and is well known for their rich, mature sound and the complex beauty of their compositions. Their set, commissioned just for Jazz Poetry 2020, is recorded at the famed Budapest Jazz Club. 

Tibor Zalán is a poet, writer, and playwright. He works in the Theatre of Békéscsaba and teaches at the Carpatian Basin Talent Development Academy. He has published two collections of haiku: Frame (2008) and And some haiku(2015). For two consecutive years (2010 and 2011), Zalán judged the haiku contest organized by the Budapest Office of the Japan Foundation. He was awarded the Laurel Wreath Award of the Republic of Hungary. He lives in Budapest, Hungary.

Mihály Borbély Quartet